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First English settlement in North America established by the Virginia Company in Jamestown, VA.
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The first free school opened up in Virginia.
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Harvard college was the first higher education started in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The massachusettes bay school law was passed in 1642, assuring parents that their children must know the principals of religion and the capital laws of the common wealth.
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The second college was opened in Virginia as The College of William and Mary. It is known to be Thomas Jefferson's college.
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The first all girls school opened in Philadelphia and was called The Young Girls Academy.
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The first blackboard was inventedf in 1801 by James Pillans .
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The first school for deaf people opened up in 1817 by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.
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The first public high school opened in 1821 by the name of Boston English HIgh School.
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In 1829, the first school for children with visual disabilities opened in Massachusettes. Now known as the Perkins School for the Blind.
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The first African American college opened up in 1837 in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Now known as the Institute for Colored Youth.
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The first funded school was opened for teachers. Then known as a normal school.
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The first school for kids with intellectual needs opened.
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The first kindergarden was made in Watertown, Wisconsin.
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The department of education was created to help build more effective schools.
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The first public community college in the United States.
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The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) was created in 1926.